Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal